Situation · Work
“Since the reorganisation everyone is angry and resisting”
What could be going on
Change curve: Fits if people are moving through denial, anger and grief about the change.
Psychological reactance: Fits if the change was imposed and people push back to regain control.
Grief (complicated, disenfranchised, anticipatory): Fits if people have lost roles, teams or status they valued.
Organisational justice: Fits if the process felt unfair or secret.
Role conflict and ambiguity: Fits if no one knows what their new job is.
Social defences against anxiety (Menzies Lyth): Fits if old procedures protected people from anxiety the change has exposed.
Questions to carry
- Which loss from the reorganisation do people talk about most, out of earshot of management?
- Underneath my own reaction to the change, what have I lost?
Also said as
- people hate the new structure
- the team is fighting every change
- change at work making everyone miserable
- why is my team so resistant to change
- staff are pushing back on the restructure
- everyone is upset since the reorg